Irish Museum of Modern Art, Process Room, Dublin, Ireland, 2006
Media: Photographic images, table, wall.

This is similar to a normal Memory Game, with the only
difference that we have deleted certain details from each
of the ‘matching’ pairs of photo images taken around town.
Object of the game is to match and display all the image
pairs on the wall.

Background concept: Life at its fullest is unbearably rich.
We have evolved with the innate capacity to let in only the
right among of digestible reality at any given moment. And
certain cultural practices reinforce such biological trait.
Details that we had deliberately excluded from the images
are done with our paradigm-guided choices. Which reveals,
in reality, that even the ‘untouched’ images were also created
by our inescapably paradigm-guided choices, in its framing
and its subject matter. So the real objective of the Game
is to let players experience how this and similar works
manipulate our emotions and intellects. Through playing
the game: you can experience our personal operating
paradigms at work, which are usually hidden behind the
artwork; and your hardwired responses at work, which are
usually hidden in your instinctive preferences. Living Lenses
believe that, by making our paradigms more transparent and
fluid, we can better appreciate the mystery of the unbearable
richness of being.

*Rules:To start the game, make sure all images are faced
down on the table. Players take turns to flip over any two
cards. When a match is found, they are displayed on the
wall. If no match is found, the two cards are turned back
over. And it is the next player’s turn.

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